A fascinating reddit thread about how demoralized and dysfunctional ICE has become, people quitting, people quiet quitting, and a veneer of new thugs doing most of the shitty street work we're seeing.

I saw a lot of people from across the ideological spectrum condemning Maloney’s cash-grab the other day. Good! But the reality is significantly worse than you think. In order to secure a plush gig in Paris after losing reelection, SPM pledged not to work for crypto firms or digital asset companies

Here's just one of many examples in the indictment. I've added Kevin Cross's game log for Feb 2024 so you can see his line in the game this 14.8ppg scorer for Tulane is accused of tanking for a $30,000 payment. National, online gambling is harming the integrity of our sports. 2/

Democrats message on ICE should be very simple: they will not fund Trump’s war on the American people. They will not fund a lawless assault on our cities, our neighbors or our rights. They will not fund the murder of legal observers. Instead, we get this horseshit.

New from me and @tristanl.ee with a bit of help from @wileydcope.bsky.social: We identified companies in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that are operated either by members of Patriot Front or individuals with multiple connections to Patriot Front www.texasobserver.org/revealed-fou...

This dude is intense and correct

Sonia lives in a country that lost its measles elimination status. Yours could too. www.voicesforvaccines.org/how-close-me...

got asked to pinch-hit the midday mass at the cathedral today and you all know what that means!!! VOTIVE MASS for SOCIAL JUSTICE

This will break your heart, but please listen to it in its entirety. #ReneeGood

President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy the military in Minneapolis on Thursday. https://to.pbs.org/4jK5L2f

I wrote about how we’re losing Third Spaces, why this is a civic emergency at a time when we’re watching the world burn through our phones (and in our streets), and what an intervention might look like. www.mindthemoss.com/p/stealing-t...

MAGA has raised over $1 million for the ICE agent who shot and killed mom-of-three Renee Good.

I was in the midst of preparing a Morning Memo arguing that Minneapolis is shaping up to be the catalyzing moment that Trump was looking for to justify doing what he has wanted to do since his 1st term: invoke the Insurrection Act...when he posted exactly that: talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

~50% of the people living in the US weren’t even born the last time a President invoked the Insurrection Act. And when GHWB did that in 1992, the soldiers deployed to LA were not given live ammunition.

It was almost comforting jumping back 5 and a half years and seeing how fucking quaint the discourse was back then. Just petty squabble after petty squabble and now most of these fuckos who signed this letter are sitting silently while Trump demands oaths of loyalty.

Ending EPA greenhouse gas reporting follows a familiar strategy: eliminate measurement to evade responsibility. When climate harm goes uncounted, corporate power becomes harder to confront. truthout.org/articles/tru...

ICE + Trump will continue until there are so many of us that force them to stop. It will require a diversity of tactics-- not just protests (but go if you're able!) but strikes, slowdowns, many more creative kinds of actions. From a cross section of the population. Because that's how we will win.

On the importance of coming together:

DOGE framed neoliberal austerity as "efficiency". Social programs and oversight were cut, spending stayed high, and corporate power faced fewer constraints. Elon’s objective was never fiscal discipline—it was political realignment further in favor of private power.

And there it is.

bsky.app/profile/404m... Speaking in our role as the ultimate arbiters of eliteness, CULT OF THE DEAD COW would like to express that far from being "elite", the Palantir app, and anyone/anything that supports the gestapo, are K-Lame R0dentz who must be crushed by any means necessary.

Wine moms are scaring off ICE agents with whistles when all they want to do is go to boozy brunch, and you're calling the left demoralized?

Another critical piece of missing context in this story: tax dollars flow from the MSP metro to rural Minnesota. People in the city subsidize the lifestyles of people living in the country minnesotareformer.com/2023/12/04/t...

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that in theory part is less about the tech side (straightforward), it's that I'm not aware of a real case where the timing of a group all joining signal was considered as a factor held against them. the caution is less about courts than what palantir is illegally doing with big data to target people

another benefit of using signal before you need it is though messages are encrypted they can still tell when someone started using it or if they're using it. having normalized usage before many people in a region join at the same time in theory makes harder to infer usage is part of a recent pattern

SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground. Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.

The Insurrection Act doesn't give Trump anything *new* though. It's functionally just an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act -- but Trump's been disregarding Posse Comitatus anyway, and the courts take months before saying "No, bad Trump" by which time ICE has moved on bsky.app/profile/jame...

i think this gets at something important which is that normal people are rightly pissed off that they’re having normal time stolen from them by this ravaging horde of jumped up mall cops. everybody has to work in the morning! why is it THEIR job to hold their community together in such a basic way!

No, they should be impeaching & removing already. The fact it’s progressed this far is already a total abdication of their constitutional responsibilities.

If you're a Republican, fraud and corruption is encouraged. That's the game.

She was cancelled in retaliation for filing this amicus brief in our Hecox and B.P.J. cases that were argued on Tuesday. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

The University of Arkansas's law school just withdrew the appointment of its new dean six days after hiring her because conservative politicians complained that she filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of transgender students

Just came as close as I ever have to yelling at my CEO. My nonprofit operates a coffee shop and it has a flyer for our local ICE hotline. She was wondering if it was appropriate to have up. I had to calmly but forcefully point out it is 100% legal for people to report on the whereabouts of ICE.

Organized Money is back for the new year. We had on Stacy Mitchell to talk about how prices have become a reflection of power, as she uncovered by unmasking a secret lawsuit showing collusion between Pepsi and Walmart to raise prices across the country. www.organizedmoney.fm/p/the-secret...

"Let them eat a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing."

Charlie Kirk from The Charlie Kirk Show, Oct. 26, 2023:

they’ll blame you for being in their way even when they’re the ones who invaded the neighborhood where your baby was sleeping inside your home

Yes bsky.app/profile/jwha...

The opinion is about a technical question — the core issue of whether Mahmoud's free speech rights were violated hasn't yet been decided by a court. Dissent can't be grounds for detention or deportation, and we'll keep fighting to uphold that core principle.

BREAKING: An appeals court overturned a lower court ruling that had barred the Trump administration from detaining our client, Mahmoud Khalil. This ruling doesn't go into effect immediately, and we will use every legal avenue possible to keep him free.

Yes! If there’s anyone on here who hasn’t been blocked by Frederik Schaltz-Buchholzer, could you please rub this in his face and screenshot his replies? Yes I’m being petty, but I need a dose of schadenfreude.

BREAKING: The controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau has been *cancelled,* I can now report. A senior official with Africa CDC confirmed the cancellation and said GB officials are working to make sure any research is conducted ethically: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Oh God, this is good news. I had been trying to bring myself to blog about this trial, but every time I was too enraged to get something together. This was a hideously stupid and unethical idea, and no one promoting it should have anything to do with medicine or public health.

October 23, 2024, and the media mocked her.

A thing that is just a constant annoyance to me is that a huge theme of The Western Canon is welcoming strangers into your home. Like, the entire Odyssey is just a series of dudes telling Odysseus and Telemachus "I am obligated to feed and shelter you for three days before you tell me who you are."

Flashbangs burn hotter then lava. They've caused serious burns, severed hands, and even killed. *That's* what ICE just tossed into a car full of kids. Here's our investigation from 2015, by @juliaangwin.com: www.propublica.org/article/flas...

Macromedia flash

Stage 5 pundit-brain is watching an innocent woman being killed by agents of the state and going, "hmm this says a lot about the urban-rural divide in America."

This is incredible: 81% of working class and 83% of young voters have seen video of Renee Good's killing, per new data I've obtained. Majority of working class disapproves of ICE enforcement. ICE brutality is breaking through big time. Some thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/2052...